Herb

Abalone shell (Shi jue ming)

石决明shi jue ming

1 sourceConcha Haliotidis

Calms the liver and clears liver heat, brightens the eyes and removes nebula, and is recorded for eye-screen pain, blue-blindness, internal obstruction, bone-steaming taxation, and strangury.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷四十六·介部·蛤蚌类·石决明·主治

References

functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
public pharmacopoeia & zoological facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).

Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：目障翳痛，青盲。久服，益精轻身；肝肺风热，青盲内障，骨蒸劳极；通五淋。

Nature, flavor & meridians

Nature & flavor: 咸，平，无毒。

Citations

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷四十六·介部·蛤蚌类·石决明·条名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷四十六·介部·蛤蚌类·石决明·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its nature & flavor.
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷四十六·介部·蛤蚌类·石决明·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.